I 400 milioni
/
Les 400 Millions
director:
Joris Ivens
/
John Fernhout
playwright:
Joris Ivens
/
Dudley Nichols
actor:
Fredric March
/
Morris Carnovsky
/
Sidney Lumet
/
Robert Q. Lewis
/
Alfred Ryder
…
genre:
Documentary
region:
USA
/
China
language:
English
/
Yue Chinese
length: 54m
release date:
1939-03-07
(Release)
IMDb: tt0029832
overview
Joris Ivens’s wartime documentary of China’s resistance to the Japanese invasion, cross-cutting civilian exodus and bombing with the Nationalist state’s mobilization—schools, industry, dispersed war production, foreign relief—and guerrilla fighting. Framing an ancient nation of “400 million,” it contrasts tradition with modernization and closes on the unresolved question of victory.